[rustlabs] put together an interesting looking gaming gun for FPS games. He wrote up his build and how to use a webcam to provide gun tracking for games like Half Life 2. He gutted a keyboard to provide the button interface, and infrared LEDs on the gun body are tracked by the cam. Surprisingly, no USB game pads were sacrificed in the build, just a USB keyboard and mouse.
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Awesome build, I’ve been trying to get my hands on a wiimote (broke college student) to do the same thing.
lol i have used roborealm in the past 4 many robotics but never 4 gaming ….. y not just use all inferred leds?
Nice Hack,I’ll keep your stuff in mind when building my hand-remote thingy someday.
Nice build. Keyboards are handy for all sorts of mods.
Don’t forget you could probably use GlovePIE or Freetrack to do the tracking, much simpler:
http://www.free-track.net/
You could even implement 6 degrees of freedom with 2 more LED’s (strafe, move with gun motions)
Wow good job ! You’ve opened my eyes to a whole new realm of software and it’s uses. Thanks! I will be playing with roborealm for sure!
It looks a bit Space 1999 ish.
That’s about the ugliest thing I’ve ever seen… cool idea though